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21.02.2009

Kalundborg – In January, Norwegian pharmaceutical company Pronova Bio-pharma ASA began recruiting employees for its new Danish plant, which is slated to go into operation within a year. In 2007, Pronova invested a200m in the port town Kalundborg to double its production volume to 2,400 tons. The new facilities will be used to produce the company’s first commercialised omega-3-derived product – Omacor, a dietary adjunct for the treatment of elevated triglycerides produced from fish oil.

Bionor Pharma ASA’s development of an HIV vaccine is back on track. In mid-February, the Oslo-based company announced positive results from a Phase IIb study. When combined with antiretroviral treatment, the Vacc-4x vaccine...

Oslo – The north lights up with financial flares. Norwegian cancer specialist Clavis Pharma ASA has raised €21m through a placement of new shares. The 2.8 million shares represent approximately 9.4% of the current stock in the...

Bergen – BerGenBio A/S announced it has completed an €6.9m Series A financing round. The money will be spent in taking their lead compound BGB324 into clinical trials and to develop a companion diagnostic. The lead investors are...

Reykjavik – Iceland’s deCODE Genetics, which Arch Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners lifted out of bankruptcy in January 2010, has been making a comeback of late. In mid-October, the genome analyser announced it had...

Lysaker/Osaka - Pronova Biopharma SA is set on entering the Japanese market with its TAK-085 (omega-3-acid ethyl esters 90) for the treatment of hyperlipidemia. Pronova's partner Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited submitted a...

Laskut/Berlin – Researchers from Finland’s Technical Research Center VTT and the Charité Hospital in the German capital have come a step closer to a personalised diagnostic test for cancer. Matej Orešic (VTT) and Carsten Denkert...

Oslo – Norwegian cancer drug development company Clavis Pharma ASA will receive a grant from the Norwegian government for the development of a companion diagnostic in acute myeloid leuk­aemia (AML). The Research Council of Norway...

Oslo – Clavis Pharma ASA has signed a licensing deal with US firm Translational Therapeutics, Inc., for the development and commercialization of CP-4033, a patented Lipid Vector Technology (LVT) derivative of ribavirin under...

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